MailScanner not behaving - endless loop?

[Julian Field]

At 19:46 19/11/2003, you wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:20:54 GMT, Julian Field writes:
> >Let's start with the obvious question. What does your maillog say?
>
>Nothing obviously wrong. The process in question logged nothing but:
>Nov 19 11:58:08 ka MailScanner[7593]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>  Scanner version 4.25-6 starting...
>
>Other MailScanner processes (forked childs I guess) logged normally
>  along the lines of
>Nov 19 11:58:19 ka MailScanner[7595]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>  Scanner version 4.25-6 starting...
>Nov 19 11:59:36 ka MailScanner[7595]: Using locktype = flock
>Nov 19 11:59:45 ka MailScanner[7595]: New Batch: Found 701 messages
>  waiting
>Nov 19 11:59:45 ka MailScanner[7595]: New Batch: Scanning 25 messages,
>  115085 bytes
>Nov 19 11:59:45 ka MailScanner[7595]: Spam Checks: Starting
>
>  etc. But the one with PID 7593 would use all the CPU it could get.

Are you trying to use SpamAssassin without having first installed it?
If not, set Debug = yes in MailScanner.conf. Kill the MailScanner
processes, then run check_mailscanner. That will probably make it obvious.
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